Building
Relationships
With Children Who Teachers Find Challenging
With Children Who Teachers Find Challenging
Listen to NAEYC Radio: Body Mind and Child for the 12 minute interview.
“There’s no such thing as a challenging child, per say. What there is, is children who have challenging life circumstances who are reacting to the challenges of those circumstances.” “The issue is not that a kid is challenging. The kid has an environment that’s challenging for the child and we’re seeing the result of that in the classroom.” “So the technique is always to build a one to one relationship with the child that reduces stress levels and builds trust levels”. -Dan Gartrell
Dan Gartrell is a former sixth grade teacher and Head Start teacher. For many years Dan has been director of the Child Development Training Program and professor of Early Childhood and Elementary Education at Bemidji State University in Northern Minnesota.In July of 2011 Dan Gartrell responded to a selection of questions and comments in an online event: The Goals of Good Guidance: Understanding and Responding to Challenging Behaviors. To read the questions and answers go to:
Young children lack maturity and impulse-control skills. Caregivers need to help children learn these skills by modeling how to communicate feelings in a productive manner, and assisting children when overwhelming feelings limit their ability to self care and make healthy choices. Offering daily stress-relieving activities, multiples of the same toy, and building trust with the child so they know you support them will also help reduce conflicts.
What Do You Do with the Mad
that You Feel?
Fred Rogers was a Television pioneer in helping children develop emotional competence. This song is a good one to teach kids; the message is empowering and the tune is catchy and sweet. To listen to or print the song: http://pbskids.org/rogers/songLyricsWhatDoYouDo.html
What
do you do with the mad that you feel
When
you feel so mad you could bite?
When
the whole wide world seems oh, so wrong...
And
nothing you do seems very right?
What
do you do? Do you punch a bag?
Do
you pound some clay or some dough?
Do
you round up friends for a game of tag?
Or
see how fast you go?
It's
great to be able to stop
When
you've planned a thing that's wrong,
And
be able to do something else instead
And
think this song:
I
can stop when I want to
Can
stop when I wish.
I can
stop, stop, stop any time.
And
what a good feeling to feel like this
And
know that the feeling is really mine.
Know
that there's something deep inside
That
helps us become what we can.
For
a girl can be someday a woman
And
a boy can be someday a man.
By Fred M. Rogers © 1968
To learn more about Mr. Rogers: http://www.fci.org/new-site/fred-rogers.html
For wonderful video resources from the Fred Rogers Company:
http://www.fci.org/new-site/pro-dev-archives.html
To learn more about Mr. Rogers: http://www.fci.org/new-site/fred-rogers.html
For wonderful video resources from the Fred Rogers Company:
http://www.fci.org/new-site/pro-dev-archives.html
Get The Mad Out Cookies:
Children who are feeling
stressed or other strong emotions need something to do with their hands or
bodies to help them relax. Make these cookies with children or try baking bread
with them (see our February 10th post “Baking Bread”
http://paint-newsletter.blogspot.com/2012/02/baking-bread.html).
http://paint-newsletter.blogspot.com/2012/02/baking-bread.html).
3 cups oatmeal
1.5 cups brown sugar
1.5 cups flour
1.5 cups butter
1.5 tsp baking powder
large bowl
cookie sheet
Let the child place all the ingredients in the bowl and mix them together. Have the child take out a manageable hunk of dough. Tell them to mash it, knead it, and pound it-they taste better the more you pound the dough. When the child is through mixing and pounding, help them roll the dough into ping-pong sized balls. Place them on the cookie sheet and bake them at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes.
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